covid 19

Tocilizumab Reduces Hypercoagulation in COVID-19 - Perspectives from The Coagulation and Immunomodulation Covid Assessment Coag-ImmCovA Clinical Trial. Lou M Almskog; Anna Sjostrom; Jonas Sunden-Cullberg; Apostolos Taxiarchis; Anna Agren; Sara Freyland; Madeleine Borjesson; Agneta Wikman; Carl...

Substack article by Christine Pagel Link to Substack post Guest post: A terrible academic paper has fueled renewed anti-vax journalism - it must be retracted A debunk and a plea for retraction from actuary Stuart McDonald _____________________________ The BMJ article criticised here is...

In communities of color, long-covid patients are tired of being sick and neglected Regular link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05/28/long-covid-patients-of-color-black-latino/ Gift link (no paywall for 2 weeks): https://wapo.st/3wSGcYO Further down in the article there's a quote...

An episode from Ground Truths, a podcast by Eric Topol: Svetlana Blitshteyn: On the Front Line With Long Covid and POTS https://erictopol.substack.com/p/svetlana-blitshteyn-on-the-front Episode is about 53 minutes long. Transcript included.

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(24)00117-8/fulltext Highlights Our study included 892,312 patients with COVID-19 across 173 studies spanning over 50 countries. It revealed a substantial prevalence of MDRO infection (42.1%) in COVID-19 patients, and a notable overall...

I have just listened to a very interesting radio program 'BBC Inside Science: Biology of the new coronavirus'. I don't know whether it's available outside the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3gf I suggest we use this thread to share any articles, audio or video of Virologists...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2817869 Key Points Question What is the association of COVID-19 with long-term outcomes in taste and smell function as measured by state-of-the-art psychophysical tests? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 340 individuals...

Full title: Investigation into the restoration of TRPM3 ion channel activity in post COVID-19 condition: a potential pharmacotherapeutic target Recently, we reported that post COVID-19 condition patients also have Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3 (TRPM3) ion channel dysfunction, a...

Protecting yourself from COVID-19 these days is hard. And it comes at a cost. https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/20/protecting-yourself-from-covid-19-these-days-is-hard-and-it-comes-at-a-cost/

Beyond “Psychotropic”: Repurposing Psychiatric Drugs for COVID-19, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cancer https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/beyond-psychotropic-repurposing-psychiatric-drugs-covid-19-alzheimer-disease-cancer/ Importance: “Psychotropic” drugs have widespread reach and impact throughout...

Fear of COVID fades even as virus remains a ‘significant threat,’ survey reveals https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/survey-covid-fear-fades-even-virus-remains-18940241.php

The role of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing post-COVID-19 thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications Núria Mercadé-Besora; Xintong Li; Raivo Kolde; Nhung TH Trinh; Maria T Sanchez-Santos; Wai Yi Man; Elena Roel; Carlen Reyes; Antonella Delmestri; Hedvig M E Nordeng; Anneli Uusküla; Talita...

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic “We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/ (some extra line...

Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses Abstract To understand neurological complications of COVID-19 better both acutely and for recovery, we measured markers of brain injury, inflammatory mediators, and...

Over the past year there have been some social media posts relating to how COVID-19 impacts pregnancy and can cause birth defects This thread from X , pulls some research references together on it. It's not looking good . I don't know when people generally will wake up

Long-term outcomes following hospital admission for COVID-19 versus seasonal influenza: a cohort study Yan Xie; Taeyoung Choi; Ziyad Al-Aly Background Previous comparative analyses of people admitted to hospital for COVID-19 versus influenza evaluated the risk of death, hospital readmission...

Blood-brain barrier breakdown in COVID-19 ICU survivors: an MRI pilot study Wen Shi; Dengrong Jiang; Hannah Rando; Shivalika Khanduja; Zixuan Lin; Kaisha Hazel; George Pottanat; Ebony Jones; Cuimei Xu; Doris Lin; Sevil Yasar; Sung-Min Cho; Hanzhang Lu Objectives Coronavirus disease 2019...

Immunogenicity of lipid nanoparticles and its impact on the efficacy of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics Lee, Yeji; Jeong, Michaela; Park, Jeongeun; Jung, Hyein; Lee, Hyukjin Several studies have utilized a lipid nanoparticle delivery system to enhance the effectiveness of mRNA therapeutics and...

Dynamic label-free analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals virus-induced subcellular remodeling Nell Saunders; Blandine Monel; Nadege Cayet; Lorenzo Archetti; Hugo Moreno; Alexandre Jeanne; Agathe Marguier; Timothy Wai; Olivier Schwartz; Mathieu Frechin Assessing the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on...

A global lipid map reveals host dependency factors conserved across SARS-CoV-2 variants Farley, Scotland E.; Kyle, Jennifer E.; Leier, Hans C.; Bramer, Lisa M.; Weinstein, Jules B.; Bates, Timothy A.; Lee, Joon-Yong; Metz, Thomas O.; Schultz, Carsten; Tafesse, Fikadu G. A comprehensive...